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Example sentences for: dire

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California lags far behind comparable states in funding legal services for the poor, a situation so dire that only 28 percent of the civil legal needs of the state's poor and lowerincome residents are being addressed.
Show and Men in Black , at the other Godzilla and the dire Six Days, Seven Nights , which squanders a plucky, Carole Lombardish turn by the scrumptious Anne Heche.
Despite the controversy, most agree that the large predators, particularly sharks, skates, rays, and marlin, are in the most dire straits.
For example, in three categories (sexual abuse, physical neglect, and emotional neglect), the number of cases described as "moderate" declined even as the number of "serious" ones increased--strongly suggesting that cases once viewed as only moderately threatening have now been "upgraded" to the most dire category.
While AILA has joined the ACLU and other organizations in a Freedom of Information Act request to find out who is being detained where and why, Mohammed notes that the reasons for the immigrants' detention were not immediately clear and sometimes had dire consequences.